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In today’s episode, John discusses the process to create a power intellectual property tool: provisional patent applications. Provisional applications can be leveraged in many and offer strategic advantages to businesses and inventors. The topics in today’s episode include:

1 – What is a Provisional Application?

2 – Types of Provisional Applications

3 – Strategic Uses of Provisional Applications

4 – How Provisional Applications Can Provide Unique Leverage

5 – Provisional Applications for Medium and Large-sized Companies

6 – Provisional Applications for Small Companies

Developing intellectual property can be difficult and costly, so how do you communicate the value that IP offers to a business and market? While data and analysis can be important technical tools, it is much easier for most busy investors and executives to believe a compelling story. In this episode, John will teach you how to tell your IP Story to get the most value out of your intellectual property, like patents and trade secrets.

Topics in this Episode include:

1 – What is an IP Story?

2 – What types of IP are used in the story?

3 – Tying your IP to Business, Market, Technology, and Inventions

4 – Creating the IP Story for different audiences

5 – How to Use the IP Story for Business Value

6 – Other Benefits of the IP Story

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What do you do when you find out your patent is being infringed? Many companies with sizeable or even small but important patent portfolios have asked themselves this very question. In this episode of Invent Anything, John answers many of the common questions that patent owners have when they think some one is using their invention illegally.

The six topics of this episode include:

1 – Evidence that your patent is being infringed

2 – Patent Valuation and Risk Assessment, Licensing Damages

3 – Size the problem

4 – Control all communications

5 – various response and approaches to combatting infringement

6 – Other points of interest

In this episode, John discusses important issues surrounding prior art from many perspectives: not just how the patent office views prior art, but how to understand how prior art impacts inventors and businesses. With a strategic understanding of the prior art in a technology space, businesses can leverage their knowledge of prior art for a competitive advantage, instead of fearing it will prevent them from getting a patent, or worse, reducing their freedom to operate.

The topic areas of this episode include:

1.  Definition of Prior Art and why should we talk about it?

2.  Methods of finding Prior Art and why you need expertise

3.  Prior Art and the Patent Office

4.  Strategies for using Prior Art for leverage

5.  Prior Art and Inventing

6.  The Future or Prior Art - some predictions

In this episode, John discusses the many ways of monetizing – or making money with – a patent portfolio. To be successful with a patent monetization strategy you’ll need a systematic approach. John speaks from decades of experience in intellectual property deals and licensing with ipCapital Group and while at IBM. The topic areas for this episode include: 1 – How to find out who to sell or license your patents 2 – How to prepare for a patent sale – getting your house in order 3 – The Market Pull method 4 – The Market Push method 5 – Starting and Supporting a patent monetization campaign 6 – Patent negotiations and closing a deal

The Art and Science of Patent Valuation   Today, we will discuss how to figure out how much a patent is worth. This episode will cover six topics relating to patent valuation. Topic 1 - What is a patent valuation? Topic 2 - how are valuations used in transactions like patent licensing? Topic 3 - How patent owners without a business can leverage patent valuation Topic 4 - How a patent owner in an early-stage business can leverage a patent valuation Topic 5 - How do you increase the valuation of your patents? Topic 6 - Use a patent valuation to determine your future IP strategy Join John to learn about what a patent valuation is and the basic principles of how it's used and, most important, how you can use it for licensing to make money.

In this episode, John recalls building a “patent factory” during his tenure with IBM as an semiconductor engineer in the technology development department. This allowed him to become to top inventor at IBM and helped IP licensing at IBM grow to over a billion dollars a year in revenue. Next, John and Mark discuss the question, “Do corporations need to continue to invent?” It may seem obvious that the definitive answer is “Yes.” John discusses various businesses needs and environments that drive the need for invention, and the types of creative strategies you might use to fill those needs. Also discussed in this Episode: - The difference between invention and innovation - Incremental invention versus breakthrough inventions - First movers and fast followers - Ad hoc invention processes and why they don’t work - Inventor recognition - Building a culture for creativity and invention - How AI is changing intellectual property  www.inventanything.net

In this special episode, Mark Alyn joins host John Cronin in an interview format. They discuss John’s background that lead to a career as an inventor, starting from childhood to becoming the top inventor at IBM, to founding ipCapital Group. Further, John and Mark discuss the process of invention, that starts with a problem that needs to be solved by a creative idea. Eventually, with the right tools that creative idea can become an invention, and that invention can become a patent. This episode is great for anyone who wants an overview of the creative process that can lead to innovations in technology and business.

In this episode, John discusses when patent owners should consider getting an ‘Evidence of Use’ (EoU) opinion. Evidence of use is a process of collecting material evidence that an outside party may be practicing the technology claimed in a patent. We will cover: 1 - What is Evidence of Use (EoU) 2 - How Can EoU leverage your company 3 - EoU secrets only the experts know 4 - How to Monetize Patents with EoU 5 - Avoid pitfalls with EoU 6 - Know more about your competitor and their products with EoU

In this episode, John discusses when patent owners should consider getting an ‘Evidence of Use’ (EoU) opinion. Evidence of use is a process of collecting material evidence that an outside party may be practicing the technology claimed in a patent. We will cover: